I see you
in every corner
I look at—
sometimes
surreal and
breathtaking,
at times haunting
and nightmarish—
the thought of
never being
yours is fueling
enough dread,
that you are
just a vision,
marked with
uncertainty
and brandished
with hopelessness

YOU ARE READING
Albeit flawed,
PuisiI was basking under the sun-the waves muffle the sound of my breathing; and I bury myself with cautionary confidence in the sand and with it the memory of your four faces. How can something lethal be life-restorative?